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Beijing:  The Kushner family came to the United States as refugees, worked hard and made it big - and if you invest in Kushner properties , so can you. That was the message delivered Saturday by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner 's sister Nicole Kushner Meyer to a ballroom full of wealthy Chinese investors in Beijing. Over several hours of slide shows and presentations, representatives from the Kushner family business urged Chinese citizens gathered at a Ritz-Carlton hotel to consider investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a New Jersey luxury apartment complex that would help them secure what's known as an investor visa. The potential investors were advised to invest sooner rather than later in case visa rules change under the Trump administration."Invest early, and you will invest under the old rules," one speaker said. The tagline on a brochure for the event: "Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States." And the highlight of t...

ATLANTA, GA - CBRE, Inc. announced the sale of the multifamily property AMLI at Milton Park in Alpharetta, Ga.  Renamed Lakeside at Milton Park, the 461-unit mixed-use complex was purchased by Olen Properties. CBRE’s Paul Berry, Ashish Cholia, Malcolm McComb and John Whitlow represented the seller, a venture of AMLI Residential and Northwestern Mutual .Completed in 2004, AMLI at Milton Park was far ahead of its time. The overall Milton Park development utilized its highly landscaped street grid to combine class A apartments, class A office, for-sale residential and a picturesque park with lake into one of Metro Atlanta’s most pleasing mixed-use environments. The apartment buildings themselves reflected classical architecture inspired by Charleston’s “Rainbow Row,” creating the look of dozens of attached urban row homes .  The underlying buildings, however, possessed the layouts and modern operational efficiencies of institutional grade garden apartments . That combination, plus...

Two years ago, developer Mike Harrah joined a bid to purchase the Orange County Register out of bankruptcy. The effort ultimately failed . But the flamboyant local construction magnate with a ZZ Top beard still acquired the Register’s Santa Ana real estate , currently vacant after the publication decamped to Anaheim this spring. With the Register gone, Harrah is now embarking on an ambitious $1-billion plan for the 20- acre Grand Avenue site , proposing to build Orange County ’s tallest buildings, more than 1,000 residences, a 171-room hotel, offices and retail shops. In all, Harrah’s Caribou Industries envisions a 2.3-million-square- foot development known as 625IVE that serves as a gateway to historic downtown Santa Ana , where hip restaurants and shops are opening just a mile away. And he’s signed up prominent architecture firm Gensler to work on it. Harrah, himself, has been credited with helping kick-start the revitalization early last decade after he acquired buildings in t...